The number of homeschooling families is growing!
http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/2013/201309030.asp
3.4% of the school-aged population is now homeschooled. Since 2007, homeschooling has grown 17%.
Other interesting facts in the report: When asked why they chose to
homeschool, 91 percent of parents said it was because of a concern about
the environment of other schools; 77 percent of parents said it was
because of a desire to provide moral instruction; 74 percent of parents
said they homeschool because of their dissatisfaction with academic
instruction in other schools. When asked to select the single most
important reason for`34 homeschooling, 25 percent of parents said it was
because of their concern about the environment of other schools.
The most significant developments since the last report in 2007 (and
again, we must approach this cautiously since the report methodology has
changed) is that in five years, homeschooling has grown 17% when
looking at the total number of students who are homeschooled, and 0.5%
of the total number of K-12 students.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/15698-homeschooling-continues-to-grow-in-popularity-nationwide
The number of children being homeschooled in America has increased by 75
percent over the past 14 years in all states, according to a report in
the online journal Education News.
While only four percent of all school children nationwide are educated
at home, “the number of primary school kids whose parents choose to
forgo traditional education is growing seven times faster than the
number of kids enrolling in K-12 every year,” the report noted.
